Entertaining Children

  Chapter 177 Immortals

  The addition of Xiao Yao solved the guitarist’s problem and made the band complete again, but only one week was left for the school celebration performance. The time for re-rehearsal was still very tight, and the band’s crisis was still not completely resolved.

"Young has just joined us. Coordination is a big problem. We need more time to rehearse. But next week is the school celebration performance. The time is too tight. There is too little time for school activity classes during the day. There is not enough time to rehearse, so starting from today, we will rehearse in the evening. Do you have any questions?" Dean suggested to everyone.

  As a team, everyone still has this collective consciousness. Everyone shook their heads and said that there was no problem with training at night, but at the same time new questions were raised.

  George said: "We have no problem with time, but what about the venue? The instrument room has to be locked after school. We can't rehearse in the instrument room at night, right?"

   "Our garage is big enough," Dean frowned, gritted his teeth and said, "Go to our garage to practice in the evening."

   "Neighbors will complain." Samien reminded Dean.

   "Sami!" Dean glanced at Samin dissatisfiedly.

   "I'm telling the truth." Samien shrugged.

"I have an idea," Xiao Yao said. "There is a warehouse behind the supermarket where I work. The space is large enough. If we move the stacked goods and reposition them, we should be able to free up enough space for the band to rehearse. Moreover, there are a lot of things stacked in the warehouse, and the soundproofing effect is quite good, and it will not disturb others. The owner of the supermarket, Mr. Johnson, is a good person. Let's discuss it with him. I think he should agree."

   "Yes, old Robert is a good man, we can ask him to do this." Samien's eyes lit up.

   "Agree." The other three agreed.

"Okay, now that the time has been agreed and the venue has come up with a plan, then we will start tonight." Dean began to command, "Sami, you used to buy a job before. After school, you and Yang will look for it together. Old Robert, if he agrees, we will pull all the instruments. Mike, drive out your father's pickup after school and help us play the instruments. Is there any problem?"

   "No problem." Mike made an OK gesture.

   "Then the next question." Dean waved his hand with satisfaction and looked at Xiao Yao, "Yang, don't waste your time in school today. Get familiar with the song we are going to perform."

   "Okay," Xiao Yao nodded. It is not unfamiliar to him if he doesn't listen to others in class. "Are there scores?"

"Score? Of course...no!" Dean looked at Xiao Yao and said, "The song we are going to perform is "Blast" by "Daydream". You can download it with your mobile phone and listen to it. There should be netizens on the Internet. You can download it from the Internet and watch it yourself."

   "The "Blast" of "Daydream"? Why? Shouldn't the band perform their own songs?" Xiao Yao looked at Dean with some doubts.

  Unexpectedly, as soon as Xiao Yao said this, the other four members of the band all looked at him.

"Yang, are you sarcastic on us?" George looked at Xiao Yao: "If we can write good songs by ourselves, who would want to perform others? We are all just middle school students and we can't write our own original songs. Come."

   "There are middle school students who can write songs by themselves." Xiao Yao replied in his heart, but the wise did not say it. It turns out that this is a band with no creative ability. No wonder, except for the beautiful drummer Samien, the other members of the band are not very popular in school.

   "I mean," Xiao Yao quickly raised his hands and said, "I can. Since I am now a member of the band, the songs I wrote are the songs of our band."

   "You... still write songs?" The others opened their mouths and looked at Xiao Yao.

   "Yes." Xiao Yao nodded.

   "So, can you write a song during the day to give us a performance for the school celebration?" Dean looked at Xiao Yao in disbelief.

   "Of course not," Xiao Yao realized that everyone looked at him like a monster, and shook his head quickly: "It was written before, but it has not been published. It can be used to perform for the band."

  Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, seeing that Xiao Yao's eyes became normal.

  Samien curiously asked: "What kind of song? Can you sing it to us first?"

"Listen to it at night." Xiao Yao shook his head, "I need to recall some details of the songs I wrote before. When I was in school during the day, I thought about the details of the songs and wrote the scores. Let's read the scores during the rehearsal at night. "Actually, Xiao Yao hasn't decided which song to play Golden Finger to move his previous life.

  The discussion ends here, the lunch break is already halfway through, but everyone hasn’t eaten lunch yet. Now that the plan behind the band has been discussed, everyone left for lunch.

  Xiao Yao spent two lessons in the afternoon, finally chose the previous falloutboy’s "Immortals" as the band's performance repertoire, and wrote out the performance scores of various instruments.

  After school in the afternoon, Xiao Yao heard two car horns as soon as he left the school gate. When he looked up, he saw Samien driving her second-hand car waiting at the school gate.

  "Are you waiting for me?" Xiao Yao pushed his bicycle to the window of the car's driving position and asked Samin Road, who was sitting in the driving position.

   "Yes," Samien nodded, "Didn't you say that I will go with you to find old Robert to borrow the warehouse to rehearse after school? I'll take you with you."

  "My bicycle?" Xiao Yao looked at the bicycle he was pushing with some embarrassment.

   "Stay at school, and won't be stolen." Samien glanced at Xiao Yao's bicycle very uncomfortably. I also recalled the scene where Xiao Yao saw Xiao Yao's bicycle the next day after beating Joey.

  The morning after Xiao Yao beat Joey, Samien was still preparing to drive Xiao Yao to school, but he saw Xiao Yao pushing a bicycle out.

  "Where did this bike come from?" Samien looked at Xiao Yao suspiciously.

   "I bought it at the flea market after school yesterday." Xiao Yao replied with a smile, "So I will ride to school from now on, so I don't have to trouble you."

   "Why? Is it because you think that riding in my car will cause trouble?" Samien looked at Xiao Yao very uncomfortably.

  At the beginning, after Xiao Yao beat Joey, there was a saying in the school: It was because Joey saw Xiao Yao go to school in Samien’s car and was very upset that day, so he went to trouble Xiao Yao. And Xiao Yao's approach, in Samien's eyes, obviously meant that she was a trouble, and she wanted to stay away from her.

"Of course not," Xiao Yao said, shook his head, "you can pick me up on the way to and from school, but when I'm going to "Buy More" and do part-time jobs, I can't let you drive to pick me up? Because part-time jobs, I need a means of transportation. That’s why I bought this bike. Since I have already bought a bike, I just ride my bike to and from school, so I won’t bother you.”

   "Whatever!" Samien turned his head, hit the accelerator, and drove away.

  Although Xiao Yao’s explanation is very reasonable, Samien has been very upset every time he sees Xiao Yao’s bicycle ever since.

   Seeing Xiao Yao put the bicycle back in the parking shed on the campus, and walked out again, the corners of Samien's mouth also quietly raised a little arc.

"What's this?" When Samien watched Xiao Yao opened the door of the co-pilot and got into the car, there were several sheets of paper in the slanting schoolbag that were stacked together and rolled into a tube to be inserted on the schoolbag, curious. Opened the mouth. Immediately he caught a glimpse of several parallel lines inside the paper tube, which looked like a staff score. Before Xiao Yao could answer, he asked again: "Did you really write out all the music scores you want to perform in the afternoon? "

   "Yes." Xiao Yao nodded.

   "Can you drive?" Samien asked.

   "Yes." Xiao Yao continued to nod.

   "Okay, then you come to drive, I want to read the score." Samien said, and began to untie the seat belt that he had worn.

   "But I don't have a driver's license." Xiao Yao smiled bitterly.

   "What?" Samien's action of unfastening the seat belt stopped, and looked at Xiao Yao in amazement, "You mean you don't have an international driver's license, it's just a certification document. Why don't you do it?"

"No, I mean, I don't even have a driver's license for Huaxia." Xiao Yao said, "Huaxia's law stipulates that you can get a driver's license at the age of eighteen, instead of the sixteen-year-old required by the United States law. I'm only seventeen. So No driver's license."

   "You said you can drive without a driver's license? Are you kidding me?" Samien looked at Xiao Yao dissatisfiedly.

   "No, I do know how to drive, I have learned it, but I cannot go on the road without my driver's license if I'm under age." Xiao Yao continued to smile bitterly. Driving is a skill that Xiao Yao already knew in his previous life.

   "****!" Samien slapped the steering wheel unwillingly, and had no choice but to start the car. She didn't dare to let Xiao Yao drive without a license.

  After coming to "Buy More", Samien and Xiao Yao approached the black boss Robert Johnson and talked about requesting to rent the warehouse as a rehearsal for the band. Whether it was Samien before or Xiao Yao now, his job performance in the supermarket was very good. Old Robert liked these two young people very much, so he generously agreed.

   With the approval of old Robert, Samien called and informed Dean immediately. After Dean received the news, he immediately began to arrange for the other two partners to start transporting musical instruments and equipment here. Xiao Yao and Samien went directly to the warehouse and began to move the goods to clear the place for the band.

  It didn’t take long for Mike to arrive at the warehouse in a blue Picara with musical instruments and equipment. Then, Samien's three best friends also drove over to help. Although the three of them didn't know much about the installation and debugging of musical instruments, it was okay to help move the goods in the warehouse.

There is a lot of people and strength. By about 6:30 in the afternoon, the goods in the warehouse have been re-stacked, leaving a lot of space free, and the various musical instruments and equipment brought by the band have been installed and debugged. .

  "Finally set it up." Dean exhaled, looked at the watch on his wrist, and asked everyone: "Each one of you go home for dinner, and then come back?"

"There is a fast food restaurant next to it. Why don't you go buy takeout and bring it over to eat." Samin said, "Yang has written all of his song scores. You can read it while eating. Get familiar with it and start rehearsing immediately after eating. ."

   "OK, agree." Mike and George said immediately. It was heard that Xiao Yao had already written the score, and they couldn't wait to read it.

   "Then let's go buy dinner, and everyone tells us what we want to eat." Three girls who were not members of the band took the initiative.

   "Thank you, I want to eat fried noodles." Dean was the first to speak, and he ordered Huaxia food.

   "I want to fry dumplings." George followed closely.

   Several people took turns to report the food they want to eat. I don’t know if it’s because of Xiao Yao’s relationship or Dean’s leadership, but they all ordered Huaxia’s food.

   "Well, I hope there is a Huaxia restaurant nearby." The three girls sighed helplessly.

   "Yes, go out and go left. Turn right at the third intersection and there will be a house. It tastes good." Xiao Yao reminded. He has already visited the nearby area, and Huaxia's restaurants are naturally the focus of the investigation.

   "Thank you." The three girls greeted, and they left the warehouse together and went to the restaurant Xiao Yao said to buy dinner for everyone.

  (End of this chapter)